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Vitas Gerulaitis #4 def. John Newcombe #114

6-3 6-4

Match Information

Date	Feb 5, 1978*
Tournament	Richmond Wct
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Carpet
Round	F
Winner	Vitas Gerulaitis
Score	6-3 6-4
Loser	John Newcombe

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Vitas Gerulaitis	John Newcombe
Country	USA	AUS
Birth date	Jul 26, 1954	May 23, 1944
Age	23	33
Height	183	183
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	4	114
Ranking points (entering)	0	0
Elo (entering)	2,150	1,925
Career W-L	527–231	556–224
Career earnings	$2,778,748	$1,062,408

Pre-match H2H

Vitas Gerulaitis 0 – 0 John Newcombe

Path

Vitas Gerulaitis's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 4, 1978	SF	Corrado Barazzutti	6-4 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 4, 1978	QF	Ken Rosewall	6-3 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 3, 1978	R16	Balazs Taroczy	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 2, 1978	R32	Sandy Mayer	7-5 7-5	W	H2H	Match data

Vitas Gerulaitis's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

John Newcombe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Feb 4, 1978	SF	Eddie Dibbs	7-6 3-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 4, 1978	QF	Bjorn Borg	6-0 1-0 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 3, 1978	R16	Jose Higueras	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Feb 2, 1978	R32	Wojtek Fibak	7-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data